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As of 2023, nearly 80% of the water used for Google’s U.S. data centers came from drinking water sources communities rely on 😳
Big Tech’s profits can’t come before our basic needs. We need to stop ALL new data centers until we have more regulations!
Big Tech’s profits can’t come before our basic needs. We need to stop ALL new data centers until we have more regulations!
January 31, 2026 at 8:00 PM
As of 2023, nearly 80% of the water used for Google’s U.S. data centers came from drinking water sources communities rely on 😳
Big Tech’s profits can’t come before our basic needs. We need to stop ALL new data centers until we have more regulations!
Big Tech’s profits can’t come before our basic needs. We need to stop ALL new data centers until we have more regulations!
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India’s $280-billion tech sector is fueling extreme burnout, while also grappling with a series of suicides. As AI disruption mounts, is India a canary in the coal mine for global tech?
Read our new feature from Parth MN:
restofworld.org/2026/india-t...
Read our new feature from Parth MN:
restofworld.org/2026/india-t...
Death of an Indian tech worker
A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.
restofworld.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:55 PM
India’s $280-billion tech sector is fueling extreme burnout, while also grappling with a series of suicides. As AI disruption mounts, is India a canary in the coal mine for global tech?
Read our new feature from Parth MN:
restofworld.org/2026/india-t...
Read our new feature from Parth MN:
restofworld.org/2026/india-t...
Travel soap bar but it's in the shape of the original game Boy cartridge
January 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Travel soap bar but it's in the shape of the original game Boy cartridge
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Kicking off the new year thinking about metrics, inspired by @spavel.bsky.social
This piece explores why accessibility and design fail when we measure scores instead of real use and what works better.
Longer read, but hopefully helpful:
annaecook.com/writing/2026...
This piece explores why accessibility and design fail when we measure scores instead of real use and what works better.
Longer read, but hopefully helpful:
annaecook.com/writing/2026...
Designing accessibility for real use, not dashboards — Anna E. Cook
This piece explores why accessibility and design so often break down when success is measured before it’s clearly defined. It looks at how score-driven metrics can distort decision-making, and why gro...
annaecook.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Kicking off the new year thinking about metrics, inspired by @spavel.bsky.social
This piece explores why accessibility and design fail when we measure scores instead of real use and what works better.
Longer read, but hopefully helpful:
annaecook.com/writing/2026...
This piece explores why accessibility and design fail when we measure scores instead of real use and what works better.
Longer read, but hopefully helpful:
annaecook.com/writing/2026...
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30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
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For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
trib.al
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
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Despite the mutual admiration between Zionists and fascists, they are usually seen as separate political movements. However, when viewed through the lens of Western racism, colonialism, and imperialism, the connections become clear.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/unde...
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/unde...
Understanding the relationship between Zionism and Fascism
Despite the mutual admiration between Zionists and fascists, they are usually seen as separate political movements. However, when viewed through the lens of Western racism, colonialism, and…
mondoweiss.net
January 3, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Despite the mutual admiration between Zionists and fascists, they are usually seen as separate political movements. However, when viewed through the lens of Western racism, colonialism, and imperialism, the connections become clear.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/unde...
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/unde...
Are you team long sleeve or team short sleeves and under shirt? #AskWrexham
December 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Are you team long sleeve or team short sleeves and under shirt? #AskWrexham
Why is this fandom that I'm not a member of not show me their fan content is wildly self-centered
December 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Why is this fandom that I'm not a member of not show me their fan content is wildly self-centered
Where's the cultural impact of the Ferengi? I never seen anyone dressed up like a Ferengi. No kid is putting on a Ferengi costume after dinner
December 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Where's the cultural impact of the Ferengi? I never seen anyone dressed up like a Ferengi. No kid is putting on a Ferengi costume after dinner
The no cultural impact of avatar people clearly never go to comic cons
December 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The no cultural impact of avatar people clearly never go to comic cons
If you can, ordering a couple sides for Christmas dinner from a grocery store or restaurant can be a real stress reducer
December 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If you can, ordering a couple sides for Christmas dinner from a grocery store or restaurant can be a real stress reducer
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Is Liam Neeson just gonna come out with some batshit personal thing every five years, i must admit it’s an interesting rollout
December 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Is Liam Neeson just gonna come out with some batshit personal thing every five years, i must admit it’s an interesting rollout
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Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
#Palestine #Israel
Palestine activists conducting a historic hunger strike in Britain need our international solidarity
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to...
mondoweiss.net
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
#Palestine #Israel
Just like how hoverboards didn’t actually hover and AI isn’t actually intelligent, they’re going to sell this as immortality
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Just like how hoverboards didn’t actually hover and AI isn’t actually intelligent, they’re going to sell this as immortality
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So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
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The vibe across tech (and everywhere) in terms of accessibility has felt regressive this year.
Lots of scaling back efforts and great talent getting hit with anti-DEIA related job losses.
It's not easy and it sucks. But I still see most people in tech wanting their work to be accessible.
1/3
Lots of scaling back efforts and great talent getting hit with anti-DEIA related job losses.
It's not easy and it sucks. But I still see most people in tech wanting their work to be accessible.
1/3
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The vibe across tech (and everywhere) in terms of accessibility has felt regressive this year.
Lots of scaling back efforts and great talent getting hit with anti-DEIA related job losses.
It's not easy and it sucks. But I still see most people in tech wanting their work to be accessible.
1/3
Lots of scaling back efforts and great talent getting hit with anti-DEIA related job losses.
It's not easy and it sucks. But I still see most people in tech wanting their work to be accessible.
1/3
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the idea that we will ever devise a technology that can automatically sort true statements from false ones and factual ones from “hallucinations” is a lead-to-gold fantasy
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
the idea that we will ever devise a technology that can automatically sort true statements from false ones and factual ones from “hallucinations” is a lead-to-gold fantasy
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Accessibility office in limbo as it calls out federal government's failures vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/25/a... #a11y
Accessibility office in limbo as it calls out federal government's failures
OTTAWA — The federal Office of Public Service Accessibility is in limbo months after it produced a document accusing the government of falling behind on supports for public servants with…
vancouver.citynews.ca
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Accessibility office in limbo as it calls out federal government's failures vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/25/a... #a11y
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we managed to face off the far right for another election cycle guys, thanks to entirely grey politicians who then go on to do 80% of what the far right wanted in the first place
let's do the same next election cycle when the far right inevitably gets even more extreme! our society is going great!
let's do the same next election cycle when the far right inevitably gets even more extreme! our society is going great!
December 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
we managed to face off the far right for another election cycle guys, thanks to entirely grey politicians who then go on to do 80% of what the far right wanted in the first place
let's do the same next election cycle when the far right inevitably gets even more extreme! our society is going great!
let's do the same next election cycle when the far right inevitably gets even more extreme! our society is going great!